Marliss

Weber, MA

Founder and Senior Strategist

Marliss is an award-winning writer and senior communicator with a specialty in complex issues management, communications strategy and storytelling. Her experience as an actor, writer, visual artist and filmmaker has helped shape a unique understanding of how to reach and move audiences, and her formal education and 25 years in corporate communications has given her the strategic agility to solve organizations’ most pressing internal and external communications challenges. 

As the Founder of Parodos Communications, Marliss has served as the principal communicator on a number of change-making initiatives, from shaping Edmonton’s winter identity with WinterCity Edmonton, to challenging sexism with the Women’s Advisory Voice of Edmonton and Women’s Initiative Edmonton. She has championed accessibility with the Accessibility Advisory Committee, and helped address gender-based violence with the City of Edmonton’s Gender-based Violence Prevention Initiative, It’s Time Edmonton. She has also worked on several anti-poverty and anti-racism initiatives, and helped build communications capacity for non-profits across Alberta. Her work in immigration spaces has led to policy change at the City of Edmonton, and helped smooth transitions for newcomers to Alberta.

Marliss has consulted with some of Alberta’s most prominent and complex organizations including the Government of Alberta, the University of Alberta, the City of Edmonton, Covenant Health, the Alberta Foundation for the Arts, and the Edmonton Chamber of Voluntary Organizations. She provides her clients with strategic communications advice and insight, support on issues-framing, and strategies to craft internal and external stories for clarity, reach, and impact. As a mentor with a number of organizations, she guides the careers of new communicators and supports small business owners to help develop Edmonton’s next generation of entrepreneurs.

Marliss holds a Master of Arts in Communications and Technology from the University of Alberta, as well as a smattering of other degrees in literature and the arts. She is a GBA+ trained communicator.